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Archivist Inspirational Quotes (886)

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Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.
Laozi
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He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties.
Laozi
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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
Laozi
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The one who rules like the mother lasts long.
Laozi
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Comfort, however, easily merges into license.
Mary Ritter Beard
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To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.
Laozi
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No disaster is worse than being discontented.
Laozi
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Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.
Laozi
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I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.
Michael Feinstein
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
Laozi
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A good calculator does not need artificial aids.
Laozi
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If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.
Laozi
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When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.
Laozi
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Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
Laozi
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The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.
Laozi
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The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.
Laozi
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In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
Gottfried Leibniz
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
Laozi
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That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
Laozi
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Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.
Laozi
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The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.
Laozi
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If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?
Laozi
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The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
Laozi
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Laozi
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